My math teacher was right. We do need math, and we will use it a lot in the “real world”. I find myself using math quite often in college, especially toward the end of the semester. I figure out the bare minimum I need to do on the final to achieve each letter grade in…

If you’ve been studying all day, you reach a point late into the evening where your brain says, “Look, I can’t absorb anything else. This is enough for one day. It no longer matters how much caffeine you drink. I’m done.” At one point, “The Planets” by Gustav Holst shuffled into my playlist, and then…

Last week, my dad called me and told me that my grandfather was admitted to the hospital for acute renal failure. He had cancer for some time and had been in and out of the hospital for the past several months, but this instance was different. My dad informed me that he decided to no…

Every big school has them. People have different definitions for this term, but I define a t-shirt fan as a fan who obnoxiously supports a school to the point that they lack class, and as a consequence one school will look down on another when they see this behavior. This can include some students, but…

One of my fondest memories as a child was baking with my grandma. Her oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were a favorite with… well anyone with taste buds who’s tried them, and her cookie jar was never empty. Even though she had one of those Cuisinart mixers, she didn’t typically use it. She didn’t need to.…

I had been watching The Weather Channel throughout the afternoon. Southeast of us a tornado had touched down, and a solid line of storms was marching right in our direction. As the evening passed, the storms drew closer. Rain began to pellet our windows and subtle roars of thunder clapped in the distance. All of…

Pharmacy school is stressful. (In other news… the sky is blue.) We have to learn a lot of material, and we have a lot of exams to test that. After you consider involvement in organizations, making sure we get in all of our IPPE hours, and other commitments we might have in our personal lives,…

A little while ago I, along with some other pharmacy students, volunteered in a mock interview session with pre-pharmacy students at the school. The pre-pharmacy students were also allowed to ask us some questions and bring up any concerns they had. Although we don’t serve on the admissions committee and  can’t definitively tell them “this…

Yesterday, while at my site visit, I had to make something I hadn’t seen before. When I was done, the pharmacist asks me, “Would you like to do your first counsel?” Do I? Yes! Sidenote: I can’t believe how much I’ve already done in my first couple months as a P1. I know a lot…

One of the big issues with Occupy Wall Street and politics in general is student loans. I just read an article that talked about how total student loan debt in the US has exceeded total credit card debt, which is truly amazing. But what I really love is when older generations scoff at that and…